Stargate - Season 4

Just started season 4.  I forgot that's when the Replicators showed up.  Never liked them, too bug-like, too hard to defeat, and that whole brain-stabbing thing was too creepy.  Better them than the Ori,  though.  I still kind of think the Ori were a bad idea for an ongoing villain, since they weren't really defeatable (as I recall).  But then, as much as I liked Mitchell & Vala, Stargate just wasn't the same after RDA cut down his time on the show.

Oh, yay, it's also the Teal'c-chin-worm season.  Did they ever explain the skinny blond soul patch?

Small Victories:
- The Asgard can start the Gate without the Whoosh.  Interesting
- Meet Teal'c's chin worm
- Yah sure youbetcha
- "Someone dumber than you"
- Carter may not be dumb enough :)
- The Asgard ship named The O'Neill

Upgrades
- aka Stargate x Six Million Dollar Man

Crossroads
- Oh, look!!  It's Methos! And then he goes all evil.
- How do the Jaffa do the gold tattoo/brand thing?  Because Teal'c's looks like metal, and that just makes me cringe, thinking how the Goa'uld would go about the process of metal brands/body modification.
- Freya may be one of my favorite Tok'ra.  And Jacob, of course.
- Apprentice O'Neill  - LOL
- Finally, a love interest for Teal'c. Not that she lasted long, in time-honored don't-date-the-hero fashion.  Seriously - watch Bonanza, or Big Valley, or Gunsmoke:  any time one of the Cartwrights or Barkleys started fancying a girl, her days were numbered.  Gunsmoke did marry off Newly, but the bride was a goner before the end of the episode, thanks to a blood disease.

Divide & Conquer
- Au revoir, Martouf, my other favorite Tok'ra.  JR Bourne shows up regularly on other Canadian-filmed shows, and I almost always have to make some comment about 'Toufie. 
 

SG-1: Maternal Instincts, Crystal Skull

More Stargate:

Maternal Instincts, aka Meet Oma Desala and speak in Riddles. 
- Bra'tac is awesome fun, and still kicking butt at the age of 130ish.
- Jack and the smelly feet
- Daniel forgetting his shoes
- Daniel fell for the "you can light fires with your mind" hoax awfully fast.




Crystal Skull
- Odd that they never mentioned Grandpa Nick again.  Would have been interesting.
- First visit to the skull was crazy fun.  Daniel's drooling over the skull, Sam's all over the muons and leptons, and Jack's being Mr. Practicality, wondering how far down the drop is, and what it would cost to heat the place.
- Daniel dropped something over the edge, it looked like, when he was c hasing Teal'c.  Wonder if that was a flub?
- Again with the out-of-phase people who can walk through walls, but not fall through the floor.  This one's been done on lots of SF shows - I know there was a TNG episode about it, maybe Eureka also.
- "Napoleonic powermonger"  (snort) and then Teal'c dropping Jack back on the bed like a sack of flour.

SG-1 Season 3 - 100 Days and after

Random thoughts on the latter half of Season 3:

100 Days
  - Was there anything left to harvest after the Fire Rain anyway?
  - Curling!!
  - Between Daniel, Sam, and Jack, there's a whole Kirk-ish girl-in-every-port thing going.  Sam's got Martouf, Nareem, and a couple of others.  Daniel has Sha're, of course, and Ke'ra (aka Destroyer of Worlds).  Jack has just had his little vacation fling with Lara on Edora.  Teal'c may be the only one who finds a pretty girl to flirt with on every planet.

Rewatching Stargate

Tor.com is doing a re-watch of all the Stargates - SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe.  I'd been watching Atlantis last month anyway - mostly via Amazon Prime while waiting for The Kid after school, even though we own all the DVDs.  So I started over, and have watched about half the episodes from the first two seasons of SG-1 so far.  Right now, I'm on Season 3, up to "100 Days" right now. 

I miss the Stargates.  I've been a fan of Richard Dean Anderson since MacGyver, and even before, since I have vague memories of watching Emerald Point N.A.S. and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  I like a good show with some humor to go with the drama. 

2015 Reading List

This year's list:

1. Too Good to be True - Jan Harold Brunvand
2. The Wild Truth - Carine McCandless  (1-7-15)
3. Show Jumper (Saddle Club #87)  (1/14/15)
4. Horse Capades (Saddle Club #64) (1/14/15)
5. Horsenapped (Saddle Club #17) (1/14/15)
6. Gift Horse (Saddle Club #40) (1/14/15)
7. Back in the Saddle
8. Three Cups of Deceit - Jon Krakauer
9. The Old Blue Line - J.A. Jance (1/22/15)
10. If I Grow Up - depressing
11. Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror (1/22/15)- apparently turned into a series
12.  Catch Rider
13. Crunch Time
14. The Whole Enchilada - end of the series, felt like it, the last chapter covered most of a year
15. Give a boy a gun
16. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Rita Mae Brown (1/21/15)
17. Sneaky Pie for President - Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown (1/24/15)
18.  Lily and Taylor - ? - Kind of depressing, deals with abusive boyfriend/relationship
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20. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer (2/10/15)
21.  
22. If I Stay - Gayle Forman (3/x/15)
23. Where She Went - Gayle Forman (3/x/15) - sequel to If I Stay
24. Black Belt Librarians (3/5/15)
25.  Hacking your Education (3/15/15) - Interesting, but I have a few areas where I disagree. 
26. Life Hacks - Keith Bradford (3/16/15) - Not sure some of these are accurate, but there were a few good ideas too.
27. Minecraft The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game That Changed Everything
28. Crochet Boutique Hats 
29. Arrows of the Queen - Mercedes Lackey (3/21/15)
30. Arrow's Flight - Mercedes Lackey (3/22/15)
31.  Arrow's Fall
32. Exile's Honor
33. Exile's Valor
34. Carbon Diaries 2015
35.  
36. Whisper Please (4/9/15)
37.  
38.  Elementals (5/14/15)
39. Rooftop (5/15/15)
40. Age is Just a Number, by Dara Torres (9/25/15)
41. Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat (9/15/15)  Amazingly readable without feeling like a textbook, and gets into the issues with the meat supply chain.
42. Surviving the Applewhites
43. Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle (10/6/15)
44. Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage, by Bob Pflugfelder (9/24/15)
45.  From Scratch: Inside the the Food Network, by Allen Salkin (10/11/15)  Interesting read, a good background of the network and why it's gone away from anything even remotely educational.
46.  Murder, She Wrote: You Bet Your Life (10/x/15) 
47. I, Freddy, by Deitlof Reiche
48. Al Capone Does My Shirts (10/23/15)
49. Al Capone Shines my Shoes (10/23/15)
50.  Malice Domestic 10, an anthology of original mystery stories (10/24/15) - Again, interesting.  A good way to discover new authors. 
51. The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush (10/24/15)
52. The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady (10/25/15)
53. Bead on Trouble, by Barbara Burnett Smith (10/25/15)  - Interesting start to a series.  Worth reading, won't be buying it though.
54. Cryptid Hunters
55. Tentacles
56. Chupacabra (10/30/15)
57. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures (10/30/15)
58.  Al Capone Does My Shirts
59. Al Capone Shines My Shoes
60. Double Fudge, by Judy Blume
61.  I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti (10/28/15)
62. Last Chance Mustang
63.  Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush
64. Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose
65. Homicide in Hardcover
66. If Books Could Kill (11/18/15)
67. The Lies that Bind, by Kate Carlisle
68. Murder Under Cover, by Kate Carlisle
69. One Book in the Grave, by Kate Carlisle
70. Peril in Paperback, by Kate Carlisle
71. The Cookbook Conspiracy, by Kate Carlisle (11/23/15)

October Goals

Goals for the month:

1.  Take and post a picture every day (maybe here, maybe Facebook)
2.  Find at least one thing to get rid of/rehome/declutter every day.  And put a picture of it here.

Ren Fest 2014

This past weekend was the day of our annual trip to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, which doubles as our annual vacation most years (our one day out-of-state for the year).  Beautiful weather, and a nice person gave us a coupon for a free child admission while we were standing in line. 

Sadly, no cinnamon crunchy almond vendor  this year. :(  I'll just have to figure out how to make my own. 

Also, the Boy has become a shopper.  Came home with a hat, a fan, and a wand. 

He also met a mermaid and got to be a dwarf in a fairy tale performance. 

And he spent 5 hours asking how much longer we were going to be there, then 3 hours asking how much longer until we were home.  Patience is not his strong suit.